Claire Champion, APRN, CPNP-AC

Clinical Biography

Claire Champion, APRN, CPNP-AC, is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner in the Dell Children's Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, a specialty program closely associated with the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, a clinical partnership between Dell Children's Medical Center and UT Health Austin. She specializes in pediatric pulmonary hypertension.

Claire Champion earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Missouri and her master's degree in nursing with a focus on acute care pediatrics from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Claire Champion has extensive experience managing comorbidities, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, tracheostomy/ventilator dependency, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, pulmonary vein stenosis, and complex congenital heart disease, as well as expertise in treating severe pulmonary hypertension with continuous infusions. She has professional affiliations with Critical Care Registered Nursing, the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network, the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, and the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute.

Claire Champion is a pediatric nurse practitioner with Dell Children's Medical Center.